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Orange County District Attorney David M. Hoovler announced that on July 25, 2014, Joaquin Ramos Hernandez, 34, of Fresno, California, pled guilty in County Court before Judge Jeffrey G. Berry to Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the First Degree, a Class A-I felony, for possessing over twelve kilograms of heroin, having an estimated […]

Gunman Shot at Coat Check Clerk Through Window Kwamane Degraffenried, 24, of Newburgh, pled guilty on Wednesday, July 16, 2014, before Orange County Court Judge Nicholas De Rosa, in connection with an early-morning New Year’s Day shooting incident at a bar on Broadway in Newburgh. Degraffenried pled guilty to Attempted Murder in the Second Degree, […]

Jacquelle James, 21, of Newburgh, pleaded guilty late Monday afternoon to Murder in the Second Degree, in connection with the January 6, 2014, slaying of a man that he and another had robbed outside of Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh. James pleaded guilty pursuant to a plea agreement under which he will be sentenced […]

Alexander Adams, 58, of Newburgh, pled guilty Tuesday before Orange County Judge Nicholas De Rosa, in connection with a sex-trafficking operation that Adams conducted in the Towns of New Windsor and Newburgh. Adams pled guilty to Sex Trafficking, Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Second Degree, and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in […]

Robert T. Mance, 46, of Pine Bush, entered a guilty plea in Orange County Court, on Wednesday August 7, to the crime of Aggravated Vehicular Assault for his roll in a May 6, 2013 accident. That crime was the “top count” of a multi-count indictment. Mance admitted to reckelessly operating his car while drunk, causing […]

Former City of Yonkers Republican Party Chairman Zehy Jereis pled guilty today in White Plains federal court to a one-count Information charging him with failing to pay more than $60,000 in payroll taxes to the IRS. Jereis surrendered this morning in the federal courthouse in White Plains and was presented and arraigned before U.S. Magistrate […]

FORMER PARTNER AT MAJOR INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRM PLEADS GUILTY IN MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT TO TAX FRAUD VIOLATIONS Theodore L. Freedman, a former senior partner at a major international law firm, pled guilty Tuesday in Manhattan federal court to four counts of tax fraud for under-reporting his partnership income at the Law Firm by a total […]

New York Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Bomb New York Federal Reserve Bank in Lower Manhattan Thursday afternoon, at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, pleaded guilty to attempting to detonate what he believed to be a 1,000 pound bomb at the New […]

Camille Bishop, 40, of Saugerties, pled guilty last week in Ulster County Court to Attempted Workers Compensation Fraudulent Practices. Bishop, a police officer with the Town of New Paltz, had joined the force in late 2004. In her application for employment, she denied any prior back injury. However, within one year of joining the force,Bishop […]

MANHATTAN U.S. ATTORNEY ANNOUNCES GUILTY PLEA OF ACCOUNTANT WHO OPERATED A $6 MILLION PONZI SCHEME Rockland County Accountant Swindled Clients and Friends in Loan and Embezzlement Scheme for Over a Decade Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Alan Ritter, a self-employed accountant in Rockland County, New […]